Andrew Dervish - Kaskus Founder

Who does not know KASKUS? Founder's name is Andrew Dervish, born July 20, 1979 in Jakarta. Kaskus now has more than 3 million members and even growing a lot. 

 

Andrew's success is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand, full kelelaha, punch and tear. When building this Kaskus.
Andrew now serves as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) PT Darta Media Indonesia (Kaskus) and owner (owner) Kaskus Network through PT Darta Media Indonesia. Not a carbide position because he started from the beginning until now. 

 

Andrew began his education at the elementary Tarakanita Pluit Jakarta, then continued his education at the junior Tarakanita Pluit Jakarta, after graduating from junior high school and then Andrew chose to continue Gandhi National School, '98 Ancol Jakarta, after graduating and then Andrew melajutkan his studies at Bina Nusantara University in 1998 majoring in Information Systems After studying at Inktomi, Andrew search for other universities 'support' new hobby. 

 

He difficulty finding a suitable university in Indonesia, because at that time multimedia livelihood has not become public land in Indonesia. But eventually he found through the information a friend who had just returned from America. A university named Seattle University judged to facilitate his desire to explore the world of web programming. It was a bright spot in his life Andrew. At first, both parents Andrew disagree with his wishes.

 

 They assume lecture will someday too spend money, not to mention the cost of living there. But after urged by Andrew, eventually they yield well, provided the cost of living during college in America to bear alone. Andrew afford it.

Then he chose to continue his studies abroad at the Art Institute of Seattle, 1999 - 2003 Department of Multimedia & Web Design, after which he continued his master at the same university department Master of Computer Science, Seattle University, 2004 - 2006 Andrew founded Kaskus on 6 November 1999. 

Starting from his experience while studying at one of the leading universities in the land of Uncle Sam, Seattle University, Department of Multimedia & web Design, Art Institute of Seattle Computer science in 1999, the man who called Andrew was inspired to create a website community forum which can be said to be the biggest in Indonesia. 

"At that time I was assigned by the faculty to create a program of free software, from there began to emerge the idea to create a website with Kaskus name." Andrew said that working in the company lyrics.com college in America.

Let us learn from Andrew, despite many challenges of his family, he was still ahead, because it believes his dream come true. This is one of the characteristics of successful people, believe in their own dreams and keep going when everyone did not see any future. 

Andrew has been proved that PERSEVERANCE IS THE MOST VALUABLE PROPERTY EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE THAN MONEY.